WILLY MONFRET super model & DJ

With his dreamy blue-green eyes Willy Monfret captured the hearts of thousands of women across the globe as the love interest of rapper Nicki Minaj in her ‘Right Through Me’ video.
Originally from France, he is the only child of a French mother and a father from the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe. Growing up, a lot of his childhood was spent playing basketball and soccer and he credits sports with teaching him some of the best life lessons. Some of his favorite childhood memories include regular Sunday break dancing with friends, where, according to Willy, his version of break dancing looked more like freestyle capoeira combined with some of Will Smith’s moves on the Fresh Prince of Bel Air.

Currently, Willy is signed to Red Model Management and also deejays. Before he was traveling the globe and headlining advertisements for notable brands including L’Oreal, Ralph Lauren, Pierre Cardin, and Diesel, Willy was an all-star athlete with a promising future as a professional track & field sportsman. A career-ending injury brought a sudden end to his dream and ultimately changed the course of his life. Now, as an international model, he lives his passions which include meeting new people and seeing new places, of which he counts Australia and Cape Town, South Africa as among his favorite.

In addition to sports, Willy is a fan of Japanese manga and anime. At the moment, he is single and says that his ideal woman would be down-to-earth and embody a natural essence. His career plans include venturing in to new forms of entertainment, with acting being at the top of his list. He’s taken it on as a personal challenge to do so in English, which is not his first language.

With over 12,000 fans on Facebook and more than 5,000 on Twitter, (which are both updated by him), Willy is enjoying connecting with the fans that have reached out to him online and at his many social events.

He currently lives and works in the US and is ready to take his career to the next level in 2011 and beyond.

Mister France 2011 first photo Shoots by Fred Goudon

DON'T TELL MY TAILOR by fred goudon

Thomas running in Montmartre

Montmartre, Paris
November 2010
7.45 am

AXEL hôtel BERLIN present "CINQ" by Fred Goudon

Fred Goudon's "CINQ" exhibition
AXEL hôtel BERLIN
Lietzenburger Straße, 13/15, 10789, Schöneberg, Berlin
till Febuary 26th 2011.

Gilles, Brothers, Sisters & I

this picture is starting to be everywhere
it will be part of an episode in an upcoming episode of the new season for "brother & sisters"



Gilles made me the honor to write the préface of my new book "CINQ". (available on www.amazon.com )




I had the chance to discover Gilles, when he was doing his military service, in Paris back in may 1994. Working with Gilles for more than 15 years has been a rare privilege.
I am thankful to my special friend for such a professional response and enthusiasm.
From day one, I knew that Gilles had everything to become a Star. Year after year, Gilles showed that he had all the required talent. Being also a perfectionist and a complete workaholic, while never giving up also helped. I am not surprised about his success and frankly he totally deserves it.

this picture is extracted from the Gilles marini 2010 calendar (Month of November) which was highly successful in the US (available on amazon.com)



ALL MY WORK, INCLUDING GILLES PICTURES, IS AVAILABLE FOR ART PRINTS

For more info and details (including rates), please contact me on fredgoudon@hotmail.com

" CINQ "

CINQ is a most appropriate title for this, another very fine artistic collection of photographs by Fred Goudon presented in the high quality we have grown to expect from the publishing house of Bruno Gmünder Verlag. Not only is this Goudon's fifth books published over the last ten years (BEDTIME STORIES, AQUA, SUNDAY MORNING, VIRILITY and now CINQ), but it is also related the the fifth element - water, fire, earth, wind, LOVE! The book is published on the finest paper, is very large in dimensions making the photographs, both in black and white and in color, a size that one would expect to see on a gallery or museum wall. As is the trademark of Fred Goudon he has a cadre of some of the most beautiful male models before the camera today.

Interspersed throughout the pages of this book are notes to Goudon or about Goudon from his own models and each of the models writing these homage-like messages - words praising his talent and his friendship and his loyalty to both his art and his friends, the models. There is a brief INTRO, and the other messages are titled PASSION, RITUEL, TALENT, GIFT, SURPRISE, PLAISSIR, and ART: half are in French and half in English, reflecting the two homes of Goudon - Los Angeles and France. But on to the content.

Fred Goudon appears with each book to grow more sensitive to composition, to light, to communicating the inner feelings of the models with whom he works, and to finding more fascinating locations for filming. In CINQ (being in synch!) many of the images are very pensive, quiet moments of repose and Goudon is able to capture that whether it be on the bed, in the studio, or in fields or by water. He emphasizes portraits of these perfect specimens of the male species in many head and shoulder photographs, managing to let the faces - eyes, lips, facial muscles - offer as sensual an appeal as when he elects to frame the entire body, clothed or no. His use of color is vibrantly sunlit when the situation calls for that or muted, near pastel when the light from outside barely illuminates the room in which the model poses. He allows the elements of joy, of shyness, of vulnerability, and of pure animal sensuality to hover on the page in the artwork he has created in tandem with his models.

Leafing through this classy book one is struck by the lack of need to show complete frontal nudity - not usually the case in books of this genre. And at book's close it is apparent why Goudon elected to make this exception: these naturally handsome and virile men are all the more sensuous because of what is not said, what is not seen, what is left to the imagination. It is glowingly successful. Grady Harp Los Angeles







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Monsieur of the day: FREDERICK M

Alex@Idole Model Management Paris

ROSS @ Idole Model Management Paris

Monsieur of the day: WILLIAMS